Flashes question

[Nanook]

Reenactors.

T.

We need to be a bit careful seeing historical clothing through the eyes of reenactors. The "Renaissance Pleasure Faire" leaps to mind as an extreme example but even the pictures we've seen over the past few days don't quite jive with history.

When I first looked at the "Black Watch" picture I was quite confused since it seemed to contain contradictory patterns and styles but then seeing the pre-1945 got even more confused. The answer? It seems it was not a picture of someone of the 7th Battalion of Black Watch in WW-II but of a (hobby) reenactor. Do they know better? Perhaps but perhaps also its not that easy to find the right patterns in clothing that also fits. It might seem odd but today people are indeed a bit taller, much fatter and with larger heads than 60 odd years ago when a middle class flat with a built-in "refrigerator" meant there was a hole in a kitchen cupboard to let cold air from outside in...

[flairball]

Here is a pic of the vest. I'd wear it with a brown tie, off white kilt hose, and brown flashes. I might even consider breaking the "leather matching rule" and wearing brown shoes too.
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[cavscout]

I think the sweater looks great. It would be very nice if the leathers could be brown to coordinate with the sweater and have the nightstalker as a contrast but I'd wear it. I might would go with a black kilt hose to tie the Black/Brown on the upper body to the Black/Brown on the lower body. Going with another color sock and you run the risk of someone thinking the socks were an after thought.

And you better watch out or that moose that dropped that antler might come back for it.